Added value: Tesco tycoon sells Somerset pile

Terry Green brought the £15 suit to Tesco — now he has spent £1m on renovating this country manor. Is its £5.25m price tag justified?

360º tour: Nine-bedroom Bittescombe is on sale for £5.25m (Eyerevolution)

A little more than three years ago, Terry Green and Julie Anne Parsons were
living in north London. At about four o’clock every weekday morning, the
first bus would clatter its way over the speed bumps outside their house.
Not long afterwards, planes began to roar overhead on the way to Heathrow.
So it was partly in search of a better night’s sleep that the couple decided
to escape to the country. They moved from Highgate to Bittescombe Manor, a
Somerset pile that couldn’t be much more rural if it owned a black labrador,
a battered Barbour jacket and a copy of the Wurzels’ latest CD.

Their next-door neighbour, a previous owner of the house, lives about half a
mile away. The surrounding countryside, on the edge of Exmoor, is so rustic
that Parsons, 45, once gazed out across the swimming pool — as you do — only
to find a large